Pine Plains

PINE PLAINS — Driven by the national FFA motto, “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve,” members of the Pine Plains FFA have made every effort to show their support for the local community while building essential leadership skills.

There are currently 35 active student members involved in the Pine Plains chapter of the FFA. The fall is one of the best seasons to witness students in action at the annual Ag Fair, though students consistently work to raise awareness of the organization throughout the year.

Pine Plains

PINE PLAINS — The Friends of the Pine Plains Free Library hosted a Victorian Tea Party fundraiser at the Mashomack Fish and Game Reserve on Sunday, May 15. Despite the British weather, Mashomack hosted a full house, raising more than $3,000 that will be used to buy items for the library that aren’t covered by its official budget.
Party attendees were served afternoon tea, followed by finger sandwiches and desserts. Harney & Sons Fine Tea donated two flavors of tea for the event and more than 600 cups of tea were served throughout the afternoon.

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PINE PLAINS — The question of whether a walk/don’t walk sign should be installed at the intersection of routes 82 and 199 has become a hot button issue in the town of Pine Plains, with the Town Board and many residents against the idea, and the state Department of Transportation (DOT) eager to follow through on the project.
“I was just struck by how little traffic there seems to be at that intersection and why someone could not cross with just the traffic signal without an issue,” resident Bill Abrams said. (Abrams writes the weekly “The Country Curmudgeon” column for The Millerton News.)

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PINE PLAINS — The First United Presbyterian Church of Pine Plains held its annual church Rummage and Bake Sale on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30. The proceeds will go to help “church expenses,” as “the budget is always a challenge,” said Pastor Carol Miller.
The Presbyterian Women’s Association is responsible for the rummage sale as well as the autumn bazaar. Both events are run by volunteers. The events have been held at the church for more years than anyone can remember.

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PINE PLAINS — The Friends of the Pine Plains Library will hold a Victorian Tea at the Mashomack Fish and Game Preserve on Sunday, May 15, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Mashomack is at 7435 Route 82, 1.7 miles south of the intersection of routes 82 and 199.
Tickets are $32 and can be purchased at four locations in town: the library, the pharmacy, Deuel’s Hardware and Hammertown Barn. Mashomack is donating not only its facilities, but also items for the event. Harney and Sons Fine Teas is donating the tea and Ronnybrook Dairy is donating the clotted cream.

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PINE PLAINS — The 4-H Club of Pine Plains held its fouth annual chicken barbecue fundraiser at the Lions Club Pavilion on Saturday, April 30. The successful event welcomed local families, 4-H supporters and barbecue-lovers alike for an evening of tempting, fresh-cooked food, door prizes, a 50-50 raffle and a silent auction. All together, more than 200 meals were served and 100 items auctioned off and more than $2,000 was raised for the 4-H Club.

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At the Pine Plains Free Library, librarian Marguerite Hill holds weekly story hours in the children’s room. Keeping in line with the spring weather, Hill recently read to the children from a number of stories about planting in the garden. She then sent the children home with a better understanding of the flowers that bloom in their parents’ gardens. To get the children in the spirit of digging in the dirt, and familiar with everything that one can find in the garden, Hill sang “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” with her young readers.

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PINE PLAINS — Lt. Liz Cohn, U.S. Army, was recently deployed to Afghanistan, where she is a medical liaison for the 10th Mountain Division at the Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Air Field. Cohn is the daughter of Ruth and Roger Cohn of Pine Plains.

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COPAKE — Imagine. Think. Connect. That’s the motto of the Roeliff Jansen Community Library, and during the month of May, there are plenty of opportunities to do all of that and more.
Join the new Classic Mysteries Book Club; select great titles at the sale of books from the library of presidential biographer Herb Parmet; catch the documentary film, “Moms,” followed by a question-and-answer period with producer Peter Odabashian; bring the kids to Wii night; meet award-winning author/illustrator Emily McCully; or get hands-on instruction in a radio broadcasting workshop (ages 8 to 12).

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PINE PLAINS — The Town Board meeting of Thursday, April 21, was relatively brief and without much controversy. That was all well and good, according to town Supervisor Gregg Pulver.
“It was a very quiet night,” he said. “It’s very nice to go through the motions once in a while.”
A visit from
the assemblyman

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PINE PLAINS — The Seymour Smith Elementary School’s PTA sponsored this year’s Easter egg hunt for local children on Saturday, April 16. As in the past, dozens of excited children showed up to meet the Easter Bunny and hunt for eggs filled with candy. The hunt was done within a few moments, as the children grabbed the plastic eggs as quickly as they could, leaving no trace of the day’s event shortly after the 10 a.m. start time.

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